Appeal 2006-2983
Application 10/733,957
disclosure, as filed, is sufficiently complete to enable one of ordinary skill in the
art to make and use the claimed invention without undue experimentation. In re
Wands, 858 F.2d 731, 737, 8 USPQ2d 1400, 1404 (Fed. Cir. 1988). “Enablement
is not precluded by the necessity for some experimentation . . .. However,
experimentation needed to practice the invention must not be undue
experimentation. The key word is ‘undue,’ not ‘experimentation.’” In re Wands,
858 F.2d at 736-737, 8 USPQ2d at 1404.
ANALYSIS
The claimed control module controls deployment of the occupant restraint
device, or airbag, and receives a signal from a pressure sensor. The claims do not
require that the control module control deployment of the airbag in connection
with, or in response to, the received signal of the measured pressure.
Breed provides written description of, and enables, the claimed invention.
In particular, Breed describes a seat of the invention, as shown in Figure 1. Rather
than show all of the features in a single drawing, Breed separates the features of
the invention into separate figures. Breed, thus, adds further features to the seat of
Figure 1 in Figures 2, 5, and 9. The added features of Figures 2, 5 and 9 are
controlled by the control module (150) of Figure 1. For example, the control
module (150) receives a signal from a pressure sensor (560) of Figure 5 indicating
the pressure in the chamber of the seat bladder (515). The control module (150)
also controls deployment of an airbag (900) in Figure 9 based on signals received
from height sensors (120, 121, 122) and weight sensor (200). Breed describes that
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